As of April 24th, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Utah has ordered a temporary stay of S.B. 199.
The Utah State Courts are processing guardianship cases under existing law, but are excluding all of S.B. 199's provisions until the stay is lifted or amended. Learn more

Healthy Coping Skills

  • Practicing meditation & relaxation techniques
  • Finding humor
  • Counting backwards from 100
  • Leaves on a stream: Imagine difficult thoughts/feelings like a leaf on a stream. Just like the leaf that floats down a stream, as time passes the leaf goes out of view, and so does our difficult emotion/though.
  • Fact vs. Opinion: Is my thought a Fact (ex. I missed a test in school.) or an Opinion (ex. I am a failure.) Thoughts that are opinions we can remind ourselves that someone may see it differently or we are being unkind to ourselves.
  • Five Senses: What can I see? Touch? Smell? Taste? Hear?
  • Or pick another healthy coping skill that can bring you an uplifting emotional outcome
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